castra
- plural ofcastrum
castra
- inflection ofcastrar:
- third-personsingularpresentindicative
- second-personsingularimperative
castra
- third-personsingular past historic ofcastrer
castra
- inflection ofcastrare:
- third-personsingularpresentindicative
- second-personsingularimperative
Plural ofcastrum(“fort, castle”)
castra n pl (genitivecastrōrum);second declension
- anencampment,camp
- (by extension) military service
- aphilosophicalsect
- Often used in the names of places.
Second-declension noun (neuter), plural only.
- “castra”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879)A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “castra”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891)An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "castra", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’sGlossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- castra inGaffiot, Félix (1934)Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894)Latin Phrase-Book[1], London:Macmillan and Co.
- to begin the march, break up the camp:castra movere
- a permanent camp:castra stativa (Sall. Iug. 44)
- winter-quarters, summer-quarters:castra hiberna, aestiva
- to encamp:castra ponere, locare
- to mark out a camp:castra metari (B. C. 3. 13)
- to make a fortified, entrenched camp:castra munire
- to fortify the camp with a rampart:castra munire vallo (aggere)
- to strengthen the camp by outposts:castra praesidiis firmare
- to make a camp in common:castra coniungere, iungere (B. C. 1. 63)
- to leave the camp undefended:castra nudare (B. G. 7. 70)
- “castra”, inHarry Thurston Peck, editor (1898),Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “castra”, inWilliam Smith, editor (1854, 1857),A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
- “castra”, inWilliam Smith et al., editor (1890),A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
castra
- inflection ofcastrar:
- third-personsingularpresentindicative
- second-personsingularimperative
Borrowed fromFrenchcastrer,Latincastrō. Cf. alsocresta, which may be a doublet.
a castra (third-person singular presentcastrează,past participlecastrat) 1st conjugation
- tocastrate
- IPA(key): /ˈkastɾa/[ˈkas.t̪ɾa]
- Rhymes:-astɾa
- Syllabification:cas‧tra
castra
- inflection ofcastrar:
- third-personsingularpresentindicative
- second-personsingularimperative